Edward Klorman is a violist and scholar active at the intersection of music analysis, historical musicology, and music performance. He is Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin - Madison's Mead Witter School of Music.

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His first book, Mozart’s Music of Friends: Social Interplay in the Chamber Works (Cambridge, 2016), explores metaphors of sociability and "conversation" in the performance of Mozart's chamber music. It received major awards from ASCAP, the Mozart Society of America, and the Society for Music Theory.

 

His second book, Bach: The Cello Suites (Cambridge, 2025) explores how the composer's six suites for unaccompanied cello—once dismissed as historical curiosities—have come to occupy such a prominent place in both concert life and popular culture. Edward Klorman has published and lectured widely at conservatories, universities, and music festivals across North America, Europe, and Asia.

 

An accomplished violist specializing in chamber music, he has performed as guest artist with the Borromeo, Orion, and Ying Quartets and with the Lysander Trio and was founding co-artistic director of ChamberFest Canandaigua. He has collaborated closely with a number of prominent American composers, including William Bolcom, Aaron Jay Kernis, Libby Larsen, Lowell Liebermann, and Bright Sheng. He is featured in three chamber music albums on Albany Records. As baroque violist, he has performed in recital with harpsichordist Hank Knox and with Arion Orchestre Baroque, Berkshire Bach Society, Les Boréades de Montréal, and Les Temps Perdus.

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Edward Klorman has previously taught music analysis and coached chamber music at The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, McGill University, the Aaron Copland School of Music, and the Music@Menlo festival. He is proud co-parent to Ellis, a rambunctious Portuguese Water Dog, who is not especially enamored of music theory.